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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
— Barry Humphries
The best jokes are often only understood by one other person.
— Barry Humphries
Time is of the essence,
The crowd and players
Are the same age always,
But the man in the stand,
Is older every season. — Rolfe Humphries
The crowd and players
Are the same age always,
But the man in the stand,
Is older every season. — Rolfe Humphries
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
— Barry Humphries
If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
— Barry Humphries
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
— Barry Humphries
I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
— Barry Humphries
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
— Barry Humphries
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.
— Barry Humphries
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called.
— Barry Humphries
I denied this for many, many years and years ... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
— Barry Humphries
I think the way I eat is the foundation of my performance.
— Kris Humphries
I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.
— Kris Humphries
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
— Barry Humphries
I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor ... and now I'm a style guru!
— Barry Humphries
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
— Barry Humphries
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
— Barry Humphries
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
— Barry Humphries
I love Australia - I think.
— Barry Humphries
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
— Barry Humphries
Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
— Barry Humphries
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
— Barry Humphries
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
— Barry Humphries
I eat about 4,500 calories every day, but I eat only nutritious, organic foods, and I don't eat added sugars.
— Kris Humphries
It was a sh*t sandwich.
— Kris Humphries
If you like Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Vampires, this is for you! (Kathi Humphries (Design) on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar)
— Kathi Humphries
I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
— Barry Humphries
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
— Barry Humphries
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
— Barry Humphries
We all, to some extent, reinvent ourselves. Jeffrey (Archer) has just gone to a bit more trouble.
— Barry Humphries
People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
— Barry Humphries
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
— Barry Humphries
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
— Barry Humphries
I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
— Barry Humphries
That simple touch felt like stars springing to life inside of me after years of living in darkness.
— Jessie Humphries
He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
— Barry Humphries
My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky.
— Kris Humphries
I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.
— Barry Humphries
I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
— Barry Humphries
I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
— Barry Humphries
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
— Barry Humphries